Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1986 Page: 3 of 14
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Palacios Beacon, May 22,1986-Page 3
Brazilian embroidery helps to
balance Davila family’s talents
BY CHRIS NEVAREZ
Last week Robert Davila ex-
plained how he was working to
pass on his talents in "weaving”
to his children. Not to be
outdone, his wife Virginia has
similar plans for her talent-
Brazilian embroidery.
Unlike her husband who learn-
ed his weaving techniques years
ago from his grandfather, Vir-
ginia acquired her knowledge of
Brazilian embroidery fairly re-
cently from Marie Baca, a Louise
antique dealer.
‘Tve been doing this em-
broidery for almost a year now,”
she explained, then added, “but
I do have a knack for it. It’s hard
to learn and you really have to
enjoy it.”
Virginia learned basic em-
broidery from her mother. How-
ever, Brazilian embroidery is a
more dimensional type of em-
broidery. Virginia picked up the
technique through reading books
on the subject after meeting
Baca.
While her husband, Robert, is
teaching the children weaving,
Virginia is also teaching them the
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embroidery. The couple's 15-
year old is able to do the
embroidery almost as good as her
mother now.
"She does do good work and
she enjoys it so much that she
takes it to school and does it on
her free time,” Virginia remark-
ed.
In this day and age of a poor
economy, the Davilas always
have something to fall back on for
income, either Robert’s weaving
or Virginia’s embroidery. "It is
good when you have a hobby that
you can make a profit from,” she
explained.
The material that Virginia uses
is very expensive and comes
primarily from California. Some
of the materials Virginia works
with are silks, boucle thread,
rafia thread which is like a straw,
and cottons. She uses a com-
bination of different colors on
most of her pillows, yet has made
some pillows that have the same
color, but different shades.
It takes Virginia approximately
a week and a half to two weeks to
make a pillow. After she has
finished with the embroidery of
the pillow, Robert helps out by
making the ruffle that is going to
go around the pillow.
“It is not easy work,” she
explained.
Virginia comments that it is a
gift that was given to her by
Baca.
“I am so glad that she was
willing to part with it (talent to do
embroidery) and to share it,” she
says. “So many times people
know how to do something but
yet are not willing to show
anyone else how to do it.”
Virginia and Robert have talk-
ed about combining their talents
and one day putting an embroid-
ered pad on one of his woven
stools.
Now the Davila children have
two crafts which their parents
would like to see them be able to
pass on to future generations of
Davilas.
Charges against 2 men dropped
Charges against two men
arrested following last week’s
shooting on South Bay Park have
been dropped, however a third
man remains in the county jail
under $50,000 bond.
According to Palacios police
chief Don Gullett, aggravated
assault charges against Lupe
Diaz, 31 of the 900 block of
Moore, and Richard Rivera, 30 of
907 Moore, were dropped Friday
by District Attorney Danny Shin-
dler.
The two had been arrested
along with 23-year old Laity
Diaz, 300 block of 6th, following
the May 10th shooting of Roland
Constancio. Gullett said Larry
Diaz is still in the county jail
under $50,000 bond on charges of
aggravated assault with a deadly
weapon. The police chief said
that the district attorney would
refer tht case to the grand jury.
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Constancio, who had suffered
gun shot wounds and been
beaten, remained in critical
condition at Hermann Hospital in
Houston where he had under-
gone surgery last week.
Rivera was arrested by law
officers at a store later in the
evening of May 10. Larry Diaz
turned himself in to police the
next day. Lupe Diaz had surren-
dered to police last Wednesday.
In other police activity, Gary
Will Nixon, 24 of Palacios, was
fined by City Magistrate Vemer
Bowers and released after being
arrested for assault. The charge
stemmed from an argument with
Carl Lee Roy, 28 of 1402 Seashell
Blvd. around 4 p.m. Thursday.
Roy suffered a cut on his arm
after being hit with a wine bottle
thrown by Nixon.
Police investigated a criminal
trespass incident at Palacios
, 16 Thursday evening.
Officer Matilda Munoz reported
■” that an alarm at the store had
gone off and that attempted entry
had been made at a window.
Nothing was reported missing in
the incident.
Henry LeBlanc, 402 Univers-
ity, reported that someone had
hit a golf ball through his garage
window around 8 p.m. Saturday.
Approximately $75 in change
and three sick packs of beer were
reported taken in a burglary of El
Torito Restaurant Sunday even-
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Timothy Simicek, 19 of 411
University, was fined $450 less
$.12 restitution, by the city magis-
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breaking a cue stick and ashtray
in an argument at the Town
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West, Nicholas M. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1986, newspaper, May 22, 1986; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth725794/m1/3/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.